BREXIT Crunch time (part 38) WTF is going to happen next?

[Wilf]

Lack of other options, party loyalty, just wanting this to be over, etc. The "WTO utopia" isn't "a thing of the past" the motion passed tonight had no legal force.

My line has always been that her deal would get through after a bit of revolting and re-voting, moral blackmail and the rest. Didn't quite anticipate this much fuckup-ery and we are still not there yet (they've got to get 150 down to -1 of course). But to be honest, whilst it's not the only thing that can happen - FUCKING HELL, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN - it really is the most likely scenario. Trouble is running the clock down so far and creating all this madness, she runs it down to the wire. And both main parties are left smelly broken things afterwards. Good.

To be honest though, I would really like to see a Euro election this year.

 

[MickiQ]

It's like watching a Marx Brothers film, after a bit you give over trying to follow the plot and just watch for the laughs

 

[Wilf]

Can't stand Paxman, but I'd like to see him doing Newsnight tonight.

 

[Sprocket.]

And of course we have that nob Farage stating he has been preparing for the Euro parliamentary elections since July last year.
Because he knew the career politicians would sabotage the whole thing and betray the British people.

 

[happie chappie]

Please help me - I'm absolutely addicted to this shitfest.

Can't stop watching it. Haven't left the house for three days. Just having a short piss break, a bite to eat and gearing myself up for Newsnight and then Sky News.

Up at 6am tomorrow for the Today programme.

I'm not sure how much more of this I can take

 

[pinkmonkey]

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Just read the summary out in the staff room which was met with wild confusion.

 

[William of Walworth]

Is it unprecedented** in British history for the Chancellor's Spring Budget statement to be so completely overshadowed??

**outside of wartime, anyway -- obligatory caveat etc.

But here's what Aditya Chatrabortty had to say about that! Damn right .....

 

[Sprocket.]

Can't stand Paxman, but I'd like to see him doing Newsnight tonight.

Paul (Chuckle) Elliot is available and probably more appropriate.

 

[bemused]

Lack of other options, party loyalty, just wanting this to be over, etc. The "WTO utopia" isn't "a thing of the past" the motion passed tonight had no legal force.

Until Thursday. They only need a SI to change the Withdrawal Act.

 

[bemused]

And of course we have that nob Farage stating he has been preparing for the Euro parliamentary elections since July last year.
Because he knew the career politicians would sabotage the whole thing and betray the British people.

The shit fight between him and UKIP during an election would be a hoot.

 

[twentythreedom]

So, is the answer (currently) to the question "is brexit going to happen and if so when?"
"Don't know and don't know"?

Excuse my ignorance, I'm on holiday outside the EU

 

[Sprocket.]

Armando Iannucci was spot on when he said ‘politics are now beyond satire’.

 

[Ax^]

the fun part about this is some leading brexiters coming out and saying the votes tonight is non binding

so what like the referendum

 

[Wilf]

I'm on holiday outside the EU

Emergency Question: what's it like out there?

 

[SpineyNorman]

This is fucking hilarious

 

[Ax^]

Emergency Question: what's it like out there?

 

[Cloo]

Would like Remainers to club together and get the thing cancelled, but I just can't believe it will happen because no one Has A Plan. I actually think the government cancelling it would be less harmful than cancelling after a 2nd Referendum (assuming Remain wins, not guaranteed at all) as people expect to be betrayed by the gov and would in the main get over it, though it would energise the far Right, without doubt. But if *people* decided against it, that might actually do more harm to the fabric of our society. Such as it has a fucking fabric anymore.

I think some kind of extension and a cobbled together soft Brexit seems most likely to me - the one thing that is clear is that the vast majority MPs really want to avoid No Deal.

 

[Sprocket.]

This is fucking hilarious

It’s that good I’m going to watch the news, again and record it.

 

[Wilf]

I seem to remember MPs were a bit more creative and decisive when it came to putting in claims for bath plugs and flipping their mortgages.

 

[Wilf]

Theresa May's Playbook

 

[Ax^]

So, let's reduce this to something that simpletons like me can understand: which newspaper will be most apoplectic after tonight?

I stay away from white van drivers in the morning

going to be some very annoyed Sun readers when they catch up

 

[Dogsauce]

the fun part about this is some leading brexiters coming out and saying the votes tonight is non binding

so what like the referendum

Someone should also tell May that you can't keep calling for votes on something if you didn't like the result you got the first couple of times.

 

[Dogsauce]

Tonight the clown car drove through a large sheet of glass being carried across the road by two men in overalls, the driver was hit in the face by the end of a ladder, and then it plummeted down a very large open manhole. However, the engine still seems to be spluttering away, sounding increasingly croaky.

 

[Ax^]

that was 2 years ago


where 2 people tried to lose a the EU ref to promote their political careers

and caused this mess

 

[binka]

So May wants to bring it back for a third vote by 20th march but Bercow could rule that out of order

"A motion or an amendment which is the same, in substance, as a question which has been decided during a session may not be brought forward again during that same session."

A decision on whether “verbal alterations” amount to real changes are “a matter for the judgment of the chair”

 

[Kaka Tim]

jesus fuck - what a shit show. Complete political chaos, nobody know whats going to happen, economy grinding to a halt - all the result of 48/52 referendum result that came about cos david cameron wanted to knock a few percentage points off the UKIP vote share.

More tories to resign the whip? May is not going to shift on anything - she's fucking insane.

 

[free spirit]

has anyone posted up that Bercow is likely to have to rule on whether the government is actually allowed to hold another vote on the exact same deal or not.

Parliamentary rules don't allow 2 votes on essentially the same motion in the same parliamentary session, and it's basically Bercow's discretion to decide if anything's different enough about any new motion to allow it to be voted on again.

 

[Ted Striker]

The Sun front page leading with an update on Maddie McCann tomorrow

 

[killer b]

Jesus I thought you were making a shit joke about the Express and got the paper wrong.